Pete Swanson
@peteswans.bsky.social
Possessed by sound. Yellow Swans. Freedom To Spend
Yellow Swans is heading to Adelaide, Australia for Unsound on July 11th. It’s a one off with a lot of rather legendary folks sharing the bill.
April 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yellow Swans is heading to Adelaide, Australia for Unsound on July 11th. It’s a one off with a lot of rather legendary folks sharing the bill.
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I just published an interview with legendary musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. If you are obsessed with ‘ambient’ music (or San Francisco) like I am, this is a must-read. We dive into the history of Root Strata, his label that built up a particular West Coast scene.
certainsound.net/words-with-j...
certainsound.net/words-with-j...
Words With Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Root Strata, the San Francisco Scene, and Music as Gift
The roots of Root Strata and its S.F. scene; the genesis of "Gift Songs"; ambient music as phenomenon; the creative process.
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April 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I just published an interview with legendary musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. If you are obsessed with ‘ambient’ music (or San Francisco) like I am, this is a must-read. We dive into the history of Root Strata, his label that built up a particular West Coast scene.
certainsound.net/words-with-j...
certainsound.net/words-with-j...
Hey hey. Been awhile since we’ve dropped a new FTS edition and this one is a doozy. It connects all sorts of dots.. Repo Man, Tori Amos, Harold Budd…. You can dig in/order now from our bandcamp or Ffreedomtospend.com.
April 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hey hey. Been awhile since we’ve dropped a new FTS edition and this one is a doozy. It connects all sorts of dots.. Repo Man, Tori Amos, Harold Budd…. You can dig in/order now from our bandcamp or Ffreedomtospend.com.
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Lovely long interview with my old buds D Yellow Swans; nicholasc2002271.wixsite.com/nickc/interv...
Interview w/ Yellow Swans | NickC
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March 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lovely long interview with my old buds D Yellow Swans; nicholasc2002271.wixsite.com/nickc/interv...
I’m up on NTS later today…. 5PM PST. Spinning a set of recent grips bc all my records have been stashed for a move.. a bit of a pro-social/road trip/grip map of my recent scrambles. Lots of wild prog-pop-dance nonsense that got Matt real hyped to see me repping. Also…. MONOLITH
January 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m up on NTS later today…. 5PM PST. Spinning a set of recent grips bc all my records have been stashed for a move.. a bit of a pro-social/road trip/grip map of my recent scrambles. Lots of wild prog-pop-dance nonsense that got Matt real hyped to see me repping. Also…. MONOLITH
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Minstrels & Minimoogs! Check out one of the strangest — and most delightful — reissues of the year. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7681320...
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Gregory T.S. Walker - Minstrels & Minimoogs "Perplexing and euphoric" is how the Freedom To Spend label describes Gregory T.S. Walker's Minstrels & Minimoogs — and yeah, that sums it up nicely....
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November 25, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Minstrels & Minimoogs! Check out one of the strangest — and most delightful — reissues of the year. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7681320...
Love seeing this sort of document popping up. Much has been lost to the virtual and commercial churn and this corrects a piece of that. Expecting nothing less than peak criticism and track selection.
Psyched to announce my next book, Volcanic Tongue: A Time Travelling Evangelist’s Guide To Late-Twentieth-Century Underground Music, coming March 2025 from @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Pre-order: geni.us/VolcanicTongue
Pre-order: geni.us/VolcanicTongue
November 21, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Love seeing this sort of document popping up. Much has been lost to the virtual and commercial churn and this corrects a piece of that. Expecting nothing less than peak criticism and track selection.
Welp, like a lot of folks I know, been trying to be less online and more IRL but damn I have a lot of new people on here.. anyway. Next Yellow Swans show just announced for Re/Wire 2025 and yow that lineup is almost too much:
November 21, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Welp, like a lot of folks I know, been trying to be less online and more IRL but damn I have a lot of new people on here.. anyway. Next Yellow Swans show just announced for Re/Wire 2025 and yow that lineup is almost too much:
Yo. Absolutely ridiculous lineups came together for the upcoming YS gigs in Cali and Krakow. Tickets here: linktr.ee/yellow_swans...
September 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Yo. Absolutely ridiculous lineups came together for the upcoming YS gigs in Cali and Krakow. Tickets here: linktr.ee/yellow_swans...
Got a new one out on FTS/RVNG that’s been in the works for AGES. Richard Horowitz and Sussan Deyhim’s “The Invisible Road: Recordings 1985-1990”. Cobbled together by JAB, Richard and Sussan over several years of transfers, mixes, edits. This is an excellent follow up to their Desert Equations LP
August 29, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Got a new one out on FTS/RVNG that’s been in the works for AGES. Richard Horowitz and Sussan Deyhim’s “The Invisible Road: Recordings 1985-1990”. Cobbled together by JAB, Richard and Sussan over several years of transfers, mixes, edits. This is an excellent follow up to their Desert Equations LP
Yoo got a new YS tape out now. out of practice II.. it’s all mangled “covers” of underground tracks from the cities histories that we played in last year….
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
Out Of Practice II, by Yellow Swans
2 track album
yellowswans.bandcamp.com
July 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Yoo got a new YS tape out now. out of practice II.. it’s all mangled “covers” of underground tracks from the cities histories that we played in last year….
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
Heads up Bluesky.. got a new one on FTS today.. a reissue of Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs album…. Previously only available in a micro-edition of about 80 copies available only at UC Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium around 1988.. so this music was performed with lasers, video, dancers..
July 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Heads up Bluesky.. got a new one on FTS today.. a reissue of Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs album…. Previously only available in a micro-edition of about 80 copies available only at UC Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium around 1988.. so this music was performed with lasers, video, dancers..
Ok other YS thing is that we have a new tape. First recordings in 15 years. Uk/eu folks can get em for cheaper via mail orders in a little bit:
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
Out Of Practice I, by Yellow Swans
2 track album
yellowswans.bandcamp.com
June 11, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Ok other YS thing is that we have a new tape. First recordings in 15 years. Uk/eu folks can get em for cheaper via mail orders in a little bit:
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/out-of...
Ok YS update 1…. We’re playing shows in LA in September. In SF at The Lab and in LA at Zebulon. Tix linked below in the thread. Poster by Lee Noble:
June 11, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Ok YS update 1…. We’re playing shows in LA in September. In SF at The Lab and in LA at Zebulon. Tix linked below in the thread. Poster by Lee Noble:
Got a whole lot coming up this week to put on here but I’ve got a thing coming up at ESP in Denver next weekend. Playing records in the orbit of Disques Du Crepuscule. Zach Cowie is playing a set of music from Low. Tix are here:
shotgun.live/events/fluid...
shotgun.live/events/fluid...
fluid forms june, Denver · Shotgun Tickets
Tickets for fluid forms june in Denver, United States - the Sun 16 Jun
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June 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Got a whole lot coming up this week to put on here but I’ve got a thing coming up at ESP in Denver next weekend. Playing records in the orbit of Disques Du Crepuscule. Zach Cowie is playing a set of music from Low. Tix are here:
shotgun.live/events/fluid...
shotgun.live/events/fluid...
NEW FTS LP up today. Third in the Uncommon Sense series.. DANIELLE BOUTET “PIECES” LP!!! Damn this album hits. Québécois DIY synth&mallet chanson epicness. Seriously great backwards and forwards. Grip here:
freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/pi-ces
freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/pi-ces
Piéces, by Freedom To Spend
11 track album
freedomtospend.bandcamp.com
January 9, 2024 at 4:30 PM
NEW FTS LP up today. Third in the Uncommon Sense series.. DANIELLE BOUTET “PIECES” LP!!! Damn this album hits. Québécois DIY synth&mallet chanson epicness. Seriously great backwards and forwards. Grip here:
freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/pi-ces
freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/pi-ces
Hey if anyone wants a YS shirt, I’m putting up the remaining tees we have left after our LPR gig. All sizes except Ls. Order a size larger than you usually wear bc they’ve been shrunk in the dyeing process. It’ll be on our bandcamp at 10AM MST. There are about 20 shirts available.
December 1, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Hey if anyone wants a YS shirt, I’m putting up the remaining tees we have left after our LPR gig. All sizes except Ls. Order a size larger than you usually wear bc they’ve been shrunk in the dyeing process. It’ll be on our bandcamp at 10AM MST. There are about 20 shirts available.
Got a new YS tape up on our bandcamp. Been a LONG time. Put up a few tapes just now, more tapes in the morning. Hopefully they’re done in time for the NYC YS gig in two weeks.
November 3, 2023 at 6:05 AM
Got a new YS tape up on our bandcamp. Been a LONG time. Put up a few tapes just now, more tapes in the morning. Hopefully they’re done in time for the NYC YS gig in two weeks.
Couldn’t be more hyped on this lineup for the Yellow Swans makeup show at LPR in NYC. Got NIKA (aka Zola Jesus), Carlos Giffoni, Masma Dream World. Couldn’t be more stoked on this bill. Tickets here: dice.fm/event/3n6og-...
October 18, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Couldn’t be more hyped on this lineup for the Yellow Swans makeup show at LPR in NYC. Got NIKA (aka Zola Jesus), Carlos Giffoni, Masma Dream World. Couldn’t be more stoked on this bill. Tickets here: dice.fm/event/3n6og-...
Sunday morning Dabhing. Man this new set of his work is great. The Ptahmose LP is one of the wilder compositions you’ll find for school children. I find even his most difficult work to be so charming:
October 8, 2023 at 6:18 PM
Sunday morning Dabhing. Man this new set of his work is great. The Ptahmose LP is one of the wilder compositions you’ll find for school children. I find even his most difficult work to be so charming:
Eyyyy my label buddy Jed is on the Freedom To Spend radio hour over on NTS radio at 5PM PST.. so like.. a bit less than an hour. Real journey on this one.. Keith Jarrett to Portishead with some WILDNESS in between. Love it.
September 19, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Eyyyy my label buddy Jed is on the Freedom To Spend radio hour over on NTS radio at 5PM PST.. so like.. a bit less than an hour. Real journey on this one.. Keith Jarrett to Portishead with some WILDNESS in between. Love it.
New top ECM just copped and rinsed for a few bucks.. grabbed from the used new arrivals at Paradise Found.. “Medieval Songs From Norway”…. Maybe? Sounds like fresh, immaculate new-agey pop.. RIYL: Enya, Kiri Uu, Tamia/Favre.. idk it’s GOOD:
September 10, 2023 at 7:51 PM
New top ECM just copped and rinsed for a few bucks.. grabbed from the used new arrivals at Paradise Found.. “Medieval Songs From Norway”…. Maybe? Sounds like fresh, immaculate new-agey pop.. RIYL: Enya, Kiri Uu, Tamia/Favre.. idk it’s GOOD:
Uh.. any Chicago heads ever see Rich Corpolongo play? Got a few records of his and his vibe is SO SHREDDED. Sax player apparently mostly in a jazz space but hauled around his own sound system and used a bunch of effects and whatnot:
September 8, 2023 at 11:44 PM
Uh.. any Chicago heads ever see Rich Corpolongo play? Got a few records of his and his vibe is SO SHREDDED. Sax player apparently mostly in a jazz space but hauled around his own sound system and used a bunch of effects and whatnot:
Ok ok... first bandcamp friday thread on here.. I mentioned earlier that I put up some new old stuff on the Yellow Swans bandcamp. hopefully more new new stuff soon but that'll be a sec. find that all here: yellowswans.bandcamp.com/music
September 1, 2023 at 7:53 PM
Ok ok... first bandcamp friday thread on here.. I mentioned earlier that I put up some new old stuff on the Yellow Swans bandcamp. hopefully more new new stuff soon but that'll be a sec. find that all here: yellowswans.bandcamp.com/music
Thanks Dan.. got a few old things newly up on bandcamp for tomorrow. Hopefully some fresher things to come for future bc Friday things..
Just in time for Bandcamp Friday, @peteswans.bsky.social made available some goodies:
1/4 “Psychic Succesion” was their second proper studio album and their first album for Load Records. yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
1/4 “Psychic Succesion” was their second proper studio album and their first album for Load Records. yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
Psychic Secession, by Yellow Swans
4 track album
yellowswans.bandcamp.com
September 1, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Thanks Dan.. got a few old things newly up on bandcamp for tomorrow. Hopefully some fresher things to come for future bc Friday things..